Virgin Media Outage in Finsbury, Greater London, England

Virgin Media offers mobile phone, television, broadband internet and phone service over the cable network. Virgin Media is part of NTL:Telewest. Virgin's mobile service is available under the Virgin Mobile brand, which operates as a mobile virtual network operator using the T-Mobile and Orange networks.

@virginmedia Router provided is crap, had a BT one before and could get signal everywhere in the house with it, downstairs is all I can manage with the virgin one, the customer service is ****, spend way too much time trying to explain yourself to people in India and Philippines

@virginmedia Trouble shooting FFS what do you think the usual one! had it up to here with virgin media, never had any issues with sky or bt that even came close to the problems I’ve had wih virgin, the tv box is shit, had nothing but problems with it, the wifi is crap, the router provided..

@virginmedia can someone contact me about my very poor broadband service, please. I consistently have to use 4G in my own home!! I have tried calling, messaging, complaining for months now, but no one gets back to me..!

Hi @virginmedia I am trying to close a mobile phone account for my dad who has dementia and is unable to speak to answer security questions & we don't have power of attorney. Speaking to your cancellation line has been a waste of time and awful customer service

@virginmedia Can you arrange for one of them to call me tomorrow to resolve as it's a very simple issue but not one I can sort out through your automated service and I don't appreciate being messed about because someone's near the end of their shift.

@virginmedia Is shows no problem however I have had to switch the box on and off repeatedly today to make it work. If the problem can’t be resolved soon I will simply move to a different company because I am fed up with spending money on a less than adequate service.

@virginmedia Our set up day was this week then you told us our street doesn’t have virgin so it would be delayed slightly. You delayed it almost 2 months. Then when I tried to cancel you said it could be installed next week but that was lie. Then you kept calling to sell another deal

@virginmedia No. It's an intermittent problem so is currently working. The message that goes out on the phone line ( when I call in to report when it ISN'T working) says Iit's a ''complex problem' . This is frustrating as your customer services ( appalling) said it would take until Sept 9 th

So @virginmedia have said a broadband outage since last night will be fixed by 12:25, 17:00 now by 20:10! Very disappointed. Going to be paying extra for my mobile data to try to get some work done! #N4

@virginmedia @pgee91 No, the team on the phone have not told us anything except an engineer is on site to fix issue. Meanwhile the ‘Fix estimation’ time continues to go up, and ‘An engineer is on his way’ - is he coming from the call centre in India too as has taken hours...

@virginmedia This is not account specific data. There’s a Service outage in a large area. Updates on service areas such as mine e8 service area 15. Are not sensitive. Other utilities say there seems to be an outage in your area. Call or chat for detailed information.

@virginmedia someone was meant to call me back an hour ago as I have lodged a complaint that my broadband isn’t working. Your call centre could not help and I urgently need engineer as I work from home. I will need to have compensation for taking a days leave otherwise.

@virginmedia Yes, I did. I said that in both my posts. Three times even before and after I rebooted my router. Other people in postcodes near me are reporting the same problem. It reports back that all is well. But there’s no connection to the internet.

@virginmedia This letter was never received. No attempt to contact us was made. was initially told by Virgin that they thought the account holder had called to have the account disconnected. I have since tried to rectify the situation by calling Virgin to request our account be reconnected.

@virginmedia Still waiting for you to reconnect my internet after 8 days... Incredibly lax security - your team informed me that someone called you to set internet up with my address (mistakenly), and you then disconnected our account without warning or notice #wtf #lostearnings

@virginmedia thanks for such a helpful and amazing customer support service. After 40 min waiting to talk to one of your agents, he complained he could not hear me properly, I asked him to bear with me while I plugged my headset and 10s later, he hanged up. 1/2

@virginmedia thanks for such a helpful and amazing customer support service. After 40 min waiting to talk to one of your agents, he complained he could not hear me properly, I asked him to bear with me while I plugged my headset and 30s later, he hanged up. 1/2

Trying to cancel my @virginmedia broadband because I’m moving and I’ve been on hold for 33 minutes out of the 36 minutes (and counting...) of this call.
Will cost my phone bill a fortune by the end of it! Very poor service, don’t think I’ll use them when I need broadband again!

@virginmedia my broadband has been down since yesterday and I’ve subscribed to text alerts for updates. Ironically no updates received so I can only assume you need your network to work in order to send them! Come on Virgin, this is unacceptable service.

@virginmedia I see. Thanks. There is no point ringing your ‘customer service’ number - I don’t have the time or battery to listen to the same four songs on a loop for over an hour then be told nothing helpful. Been there, done that.

@virginmedia If u can just give me what I want this problem would be solved and a very happy customer but with my contract up in January I'm thinking of looking elsewhere for my media needs because of this

I have already said as part of the complaint that email was in reply to (if not this thread), @virginmedia, that I no longer want a phone line from you. All I want now is adequate compensation, and that will determine whether I remain with you after February for broadband only.

@virginmedia They couldn't diagnose the issue unless I purchase a wired product ie pc for them to test from my end! Apparently I'm lieing about the speeds because it looks good their end! It's comical! I'm sorry but I want to leave! Worst service ever!

@virginmedia No I do not have a reference number...if you actually read my tweets you will see that I tried to speak to someone that couldn’t help me so said I would be called back in 2 hours. 3 days later and nothing!! Your complaints department say it will take up to 28 days!!!!

@virginmedia Hi @virginmedia thanks for your prompt reply, the issue is with my Google Pixel 2 XL mobile, & other Pixel users who got the new Android 10 update 1st since Sept 3rd, the TV Go app is not compatible with Android 10 it seems yet, as was working before update.

Very occasional issues aside, I never had any real problems with @VirginMedia before I moved. Now they have shown themselves to be staggeringly devoid of competence.
So suggestions welcome as to how to get a telephone line installed (ie who to go to). I'll need one for broadband

Talking to @virginmedia is like talking to a brick wall. A short thread discussing excerpts from the latest email from them. (Note: 6th July is the latest attempt at using their complaints form to deal with my problem.)